Bitcoin is expensive, which means he has always been popular. <…>
It’s relatively expensive compared to prior moments in time, but the key term is relative. If price goes up noticeably over the coming years (no guarantee of course), then in retrospective, current price won’t turn out to be expensive at all.
Additionally, one may aspire to have whole bitcoin units, and that’s a steep objective for people at the current price, but it’s really more of a psychological thing than anything else. When it comes to using bitcoin (or selling it for that), you can merrily move around with fractions of it. It normally pays off to have fractions of a bitcoin than hundreds or thousands of a given coin/token.